Grant Basile already stands 6-foot-9, but on Friday night in a game that will be remembered for a long time, he managed to reach incredible new heights.

Setting new school records with 49 points and 23 rebounds, the Pewaukee big man helped his team defeat Milwaukee Vincent in a 93-86 spectacle. Pewaukee weathered allowing 62 points in the second half and the Vikings' own 49-point performance from Rob Anderson to improve to 4-0. Basile added four blocks for good measure.

"My teammates did a great job finding some mismatches when we got some switches and high-low looks," Basile said. We thought we could high-low with everyone, and I was making them tonight. We just kept going with it."

Basile shattered the old record of 39 points, which belonged to Brian Brattebo (class of 1970), who achieved the point total three times. Last year, current teammate Jack Gohlke flirted with the record when he hit 10 three-pointers and finished with 38 points against Wauwatosa West. Basile took it to another level.

"We tried to slow it down a little bit, but Rob Anderson got hot in the second half," added Basile, who knows Anderson from the AAU circuit. "They were trying to get us up and down, and it worked a little bit in the second half. The second half was a track meet."

Pewaukee led at halftime, 37-24. It was a score that offered no indication of what was to come.

"I can't complain with the win, but we definitely have some things to work on defensively," Basile admitted.

He committed to play for NCAA Division I Wright State over the offseason after taking a huge leap forward from his sophomore season to a strong junior campaign. Basile took another jump this offseason.

"We had a lot of guys working hard this offseason," he said. "I had a lot of people in there helping me along the way, putting in the time, and now I'm getting some of the benefits of it. ... (Wright State) just got a win in their tournament over Thanksgiving, and I'm really excited for next year. It takes some of that pressure off (committing to a college). Now I'm going out there just playing for my teammates and the gold ball this year."

Gohlke added 15 points for Pewaukee. Basile finished 15-of-24 from the free-throw line but did the majority of his work on 17 field goals.

"One of my friends yelled, 'Get 50!' and I couldn't quite get there," Basile said with a laugh. "Anderson shoots the ball really well, and we had some guys playing really good defense on him, and he was just going off."

Pewaukee hosts Wisconsin Lutheran on Dec. 5.

Brattebo's record stood for decades

Brian Brattebo, whose 873 points still ranked third all-time in Pewaukee history heading into 2017-18, today lives in Jupiter, Florida. He's 65 years old and on the cusp of retirement next year, and word reached him Saturday that someone had beaten his old record.

Brattebo doesn't remember all the details from the three games in which he scored 39 points — twice as a junior in 1968-69 and once as a senior in 1969-70 — but he does remember the third time came against Slinger, and he sat out the whole fourth quarter after going 13-of-19 from the field with 13 free throws.

"Defense have gotten better," Brattebo said. "Defenses were a little loose back then."

But, of course, Brattebo didn't have a 3-point line to work with, either. The 6-2 guard ("That was good size then," he said) went on to play basketball at Carthage College. He continued to play basketball in leagues in Florida until hip replacement took him out of the game.

He played for legendary basketball coach Dick Opie and worked for him, as well, in Opie's asphalt business.

"I worked all the way through college; I even shoveled asphalt through law school," he said. "It paid better than clerking jobs in Miami, so I'd go home and make more money shoveling asphalt."

This article has been updated to include the section on Brattebo; the initial version noted the record was thought to be 44 points.